[Cryptography] Introducing the world's worst hash function

[Kent Borg]

On 1/29/19 11:22 AM, Jerry Leichter wrote:
> An interesting bit of history:  VMS needed a way to introduce short delays at certain points (especially in drivers).  The clock's resolution was way too coarse for this purpose; what was needed was a delay loop.  But since VMS would run on a variety of processors - including processors that might not exist when the code was compiled - it needed to adjust dynamically.

I remember that, but I am not sure from where. Did Linux or Sun Unix 
once do something similar??

As for ugly patching, a linker is quite dynamic yet acceptable these 
days. For delays bigger than a subroutine call it seems that a little 
bit of dynamic in just one place could then be merely linked to. But 
then modern caching makes most inherent timing so non-deterministic.

-kb, the Kent, who on seeing the merdeMerdeHash() code in almost 
compilable C, wonders what it would look like in Rust.